Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Glazed. See
glazed iron , under glaze, v. t.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a glazed appearance; -- said of the fractured surface of some kinds of pin iron.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the appearance of a
glaze
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Examples
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MYERS: It is slippery and it is icy and it is glazy and when I was coming to work today I wanted to drive a Zamboni.
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I usually work wet into wet and this one was treated like a big glazy wash on the the first pass. a week later I took out a sable brush for the first time in oil painted the majority of my details and then did a little bit of impasto in the sky as per usual.
Tire Sale william wray 2009
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Pauly Dangerously says, “All Mexican doughnuts are glazy.”
COMMENTS OF THE WEEK 2008
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‘And your reverence,’ said he, and then he paused, while his old palsied head shook horribly, and his shrivelled cheeks sank lower within his jaws, and his glazy eye gleamed with a momentary light;
The Warden 2004
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His visage was pale and emaciated, his countenance haggard and ghastly, his eyes inexpressive and glazy.
Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson
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Again he got into a frightful state at the glazy appearance of his skin -- it was an oil painting.
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss
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He had straggling gray hair, bleared eyes with an opaque, glazy look and a bluish cast of countenance.
The Day of the Beast Zane Grey 1905
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A working woman who was next in the little row of patients assembled in the back room, came in with her wrists bound up in bits of flannel, and her hands looking puffed and glazy.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869
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A reed is a miniature bamboo, the same shape, the same knots, and glazy surface; and on reference to any intelligent work of botany, it appears that they both belong to the same order of inward-growing Endogens, so that a few moments bestowed on the reed by the waters give a clear idea of the tropical bamboo, and make the singular foreign production home-like and natural.
The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867
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Looking down from the inn-balcony, between the glazy green pots gay with scarlet amaryllis-bloom, we are inclined to fancy that the whole has been prepared for our amusement.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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